Hcs 457 Public Health Research Paper
Public Health
Michelle Payden-Wright
HCS/457
January 5, 2015
Christine Tredway
Public Health
How has the approach to public health changed over the last 200 years? Which events or movements in public health and epidemiology were most influential? Why?
There has been an enormous change in the way public health approaches health care over the past 200 years. There is an article in Philly.com that discusses how 222 years ago in 1798 approximately “ten percent of the Philadelphia population was succumbed to Yellow Fever Virus” (Yeakel, 1998, para. 1). Yellow Fever virus came from Africa and the South American tropical areas; humans were bitten by mosquitos and traveled back to the United States and affected many people. In 1964-67, Max
Michelle Payden-Wright
HCS/457
January 5, 2015
Christine Tredway
Public Health
How has the approach to public health changed over the last 200 years? Which events or movements in public health and epidemiology were most influential? Why?
There has been an enormous change in the way public health approaches health care over the past 200 years. There is an article in Philly.com that discusses how 222 years ago in 1798 approximately “ten percent of the Philadelphia population was succumbed to Yellow Fever Virus” (Yeakel, 1998, para. 1). Yellow Fever virus came from Africa and the South American tropical areas; humans were bitten by mosquitos and traveled back to the United States and affected many people. In 1964-67, Max